Curriculum Map Year 2

Topics Overview Year 2 Team 2016-2017 Autumn Spring Summer Fire! Fire! The Lighthouse Keeper Healthy Me! South America Maritime news Blast off!

Investigate South America day with Hook The Fire Drill Suitcase – Whose is it? Titanic –build a boat day Connect with NASA Foundation Fire safety poster Each child to have a titanic Outcome Christmas Performance Parent Share with Foundation Parent Share Parent Share room Fire Brigade Poole Quay & Life boats Trips/visitors Mr or Mrs Grinling Darell Wakelam … Art day Poole Fire Station How can they get the Putting out the Great Fire PBL picnic to Mr Grinling of London safely? Poems Character descriptions Information booklet Non-fiction writing based on South Fairy Tales: Science experiments- Letter to Firefighters Letter Writing Traditional Tales: America The Snow Queen flight and moving Non-Fiction Text – Safety Story writing based on The Jack & the Beanstalk Sleeping Beauty Space poetry English Instructions Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch The Little Red Hen Cinderella (topic only) Story telling based on ‘The little fire fighter’ Diary – of Samuel Pepys Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways. Perform simple tests. Use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions. Observe closely, using simple equipment. Identify and classify. Gather and record data to help answer questions. Use of Everyday Plants Animals, including Humans Living things and their habitats Use of Everyday Materials - Observe and describe - Describe the importance for - Identify that most living things live in Materials - Identify and compare how seeds and bulbs humans of exercise, eating the habitats to which they are suited and - Identify and compare the suitability of a variety grow into mature plants. right amounts of different types describe how different habitats provide the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, (- Find out and of food, and hygiene. for the basic needs of different kinds of of everyday materials, including wood, metal, describe how plants - Notice that animals, including animals and plants, and how they including wood, metal, Science plastic, glass, brick, rock, need water, light and humans, have offspring which depend on each other. plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper, and cardboards for a suitable grow into adults. - Identify and name a variety of plants paper, and cardboards particular uses. temperature to grow - Find out about and describe and animals in their habitats, including for particular uses. - Find out how the shapes and stay healthy.: No the basic needs of animals, micro-habitats. - Find out how the of solid objects made time so will do in including humans, for survival (- Describe how animals obtain shapes of solid objects from some materials can Summer Term Science (Water, food and air) their food from plants and other made from some be changed by squashing, Fortnight.) Living things and their animals, using the idea of a simple materials can be changed bending, twisting and habitats food chain, and identify and name by squashing, bending, stretching. - Explore and compare the different sources of food. No time twisting and stretching. differences between things that so will do in Summer Term REVISITED FROM are living, dead, and things that Science Fortnight.) AUTUMN TERM have never been alive.

The Great Fire of London - The lives of significant - Significant historical - Events beyond living individuals in the past who events, people and places memory that are have contributed to in their own locality. significant nationally or national and international globally e.g. the Great achievements. Some History Fire of London should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods. e.g. Queen Victoria & Queen Elizabeth 2nd Geography Location knowledge Geographical skills Human and Physical Geography - Name, locate and and fieldwork - Identify seasonal and daily weather identify characteristics of - Use world maps, atlases patterns in the United Kingdom and the four countries and and globes . the location of hot and cold areas of capital cities of the United - Use simple compass the world in relation to the equator Kingdom. directions (North, South, and the North and South poles. East and West) and Place Knowledge locational and directional - Understand geographical similarities language (For example: and differences through studying the near and far; left and human and physical geography of a right), to describe the small area of the United Kingdom and location of features and a small area in a contrasting non- routes on a map. European country. - Use aerial photographs Geographical Skills and Fieldwork and plan perspectives to - Use world maps, atlases and globes recognise landmarks and to identify the United Kingdom and its basic human and physical countries, continents and oceans features; devise a simple studied at this key stage. map; and use and Locational Knowledge construct basic symbols - Name and locate the world’s seven in a key. continents and five oceans. Human and Physical Geography - Key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop - Key physical features, including beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather. understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions create and debug simple programs use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content Computing use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies recognise common uses of information technology beyond school

D&T Design .design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria .generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology Make .select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing] Evaluate .explore and evaluate a range of existing products .evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria Wheels: Make a fire Food: hygiene & cooking Paper & Card: Design & Make a Joining materials: Make a engine select from and use a boat rocket Explore and use wide range of materials Build structures, exploring how select from and use a mechanisms - wheels and and components, they can be made stronger, wide range of materials axles, in their products. including ingredients stiffer and more stable: and components, .select from and use a Textiles: Make a felt according to their wide range of materials hand puppet based on a characteristics and components, traditional tale. including construction materials - To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. - To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products - To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. - About the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work. Art & Design South American Art: own photo on top Create designs for the boats Watercolour & collage Felt hand puppet (D&T Marbling front covers of dotted pattern art. Pencil sketches of boats Pencil sketches of boats front cover link) Pencil sketches of model Pencil sketches of South American Watercolours of sea and boat Watercolours of sea and Wire fish Draw traditional tale fire engines animals pictures boat pictures Felt 3D Christmas elves characters from books Circle Collages of habitats .use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes .play tuned and untuned instruments musically .listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music .experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music. Music Rounds (London’s Christmas performance Healthy Harold songs Pan pipes chants & songs Music from the Victorian seaside Space themes Burning) & Harvest Pan pipes music - visitors Punch and Judy Boat songs: My ship sails to China, The big ship sails…

- Disease (Article 24) - Healthy Life Style - Respecting Difference (Article 6) empathy - Medicines (Article 24) following rules PSHE - Feeling Safe (Article 32) - Disease (Article 24) SMSC - Medicines RRS - Growing and Changing

NOTES: Areas from the New Curriculum 2014 which do not fit into our Topics, will be taught discretely.

The following discrete areas will be taught continuously: English: spelling, handwriting, vocabulary, grammar & punctuation Maths PSHE

The following discrete areas will be split into half termly discrete blocks and will run alongside the topics: .master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities Gymnastics: Leap into life Multi-skills participate in team participate in team games, developing participate in team games, Strike & Field games, developing simple tactics for attacking and developing simple tactics for participate in team games, perform dances using simple tactics for defending: 3 Touch ball Netball: attacking and defending: Athletics (Sports’ Day) PE developing simple tactics for simple movement attacking and defending: Invasion Game Tennis attacking and defending: FA patterns: Cat Dance Tag Rugby skills football .perform dances using simple Tri Golf Kings’ Christmas Gymnastics: Families of movement patterns: Australian Dance dance actions Christianity – Showing Christianity - Judaism - Passover Christianity – Easter Judaism – Commitment to God Judaism – Relationship R.E. Kindness Christmas with God